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(Controversial) Should lemmy.world close registrations at a certain user count? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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To support decentralization and spread, should lemmy.world close registration at some point to prevent a performance overload due to too many users? Of course, if registration is disabled, there could be a hint placed somewhere near that from other instances you can interact with content on lemmy.world just like you had registered on it. There could be a link to join-lemmys instance overview.

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[–] [email protected] 63 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (14 children)

I think no.

I'm having the same issues with pages not loading as everybody else - but this is a critical moment for Lemmy. A site like this only works if it has a lot of users - the more signups the better.

I understand that new users can sign up for other instances, and still see and interact with lemmy.world content - but I think adding any barrier to entry at all will potentially discourage a huge number of new users. As a rule, new users have no idea how lemmy, federation, instances, etc work - and telling them they can't sign up and to consider another instance will probably end with a lot of them just giving up and sticking to reddit.

The server issues will pass, but stunting our growth at such a critical stage might not. It's bad enough that beehaw defederated at a time like this.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

As an immigrant from reddit myself, the multiple instances and where to call my home was the first big hurtle by far. With that, my biggest concern was if the instance I was joining was going to allow me to see everything in the fediverse since instances can be blocked.
Right now I have a kbin and Lemmy account. Because although the Lemmy account I'm on isn't being blocked by anyone, I'm finding it difficult to find some instances where on kbin the same search yields the results I'm looking for.

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